As the prospect of bioterrorism becomes clearer, doctors, patients and public health officials must help each other walk the fine line between precaution and panic. Clinical management: Inhalational ...

Epidemiology Anthrax develops when endospores of Bacillus anthracis enter the body through ingestion, inhalation or skin abrasion. The spores are long lasting and resistant, favouring moist, alkaline ...

At least 50 animals, including cattle and one moose, in Wyoming have died during a recent outbreak of anthrax. However, ...

Future Microbiol. 2009;4(8):983-998. Bacillus anthracis, the causitive agent of the lethal anthrax disease, is a Gram-positive obligatory pathogen, existing in nature in the form of dormant ...

Central nervous system anthrax Any route of infection by B. anthracis may result in hemorrhagic meningitis or meningoencephalitis, which carries a fatality rate of more than 95%.

Two wound swabs from the rancher, a male in his 50s, were positive for Bacillus anthracis DNA, representing an "unusual case of confirmed cutaneous anthrax acquired during the winter in a ...

Future Microbiol. 2009;4(8):983-998. B. anthracis, a member of the cereus group of bacilli, exists in nature in the form of inert spores that are able to withstand harsh environmental conditions ...